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I've been asked by a friend of mine to do some music for his iPhone game they'll be completing in a couple of months. They are using Unity which has a module plugin which supports .IT, .XM, .S3M and of course the mighty .MOD format!

I seem to remember Impulse Tracker having some reasonant filters too it, which will be essential for what I'm aiming to do. I'm pretty sure the other formats dont support filters (I could be wrong).

Whats the best program to use for writting IT tunes? Is it a case of DosBoxing the original app or is there a more mordern tracker which is better suited to the job??

schism tracker

I prefer Modplug, although I admit I use an older version 'cos the new one just looks too cluttered now.

I'm wondering: since it's an iPhone game it could as well use mp3 - is it in regards to keep the total size of the game down, that the music has to come in a tracker based format?

I think it is down to size but also the soundtrack is ever evolving so they can loop pattern sections and move forward through the one massive track.

what psenough said. schism is a pure Impulse Tracker clone iirc

Schism's IT filter implementation is a bit off though, so if filters are going to be important you might want to look at OpenMPT instead.

"off" as in: "off, compared to running the tune natively in IT", or as in "off, compared to the player used in the Unity library"? Because if it's only the former, it doesn't really matter.

you shouldnt really be using fancy filters in the tracker anyways, waste of processor power.

ps: I'd say it's up to the individual musician to decide what he wants his music to sound like :)

yeah, stick to noise filters, they hardly need CPU!

oh right, this is pouet. my bad.

Well at first glance Schism seems to be the way forward in the fact that it doesn't show loads of stuff I can't use. Only thing is the sample / loop editor is worse than protracker. Might use OpenMPT for doing that as it wont be needed too often.

Thanks for the tips guys :)

Off compared to both. Since unity uses libmodplug, OpenMPT (current testing version 1.20, ask me if you need it) would be the obvious choice since it is both compatible to Unity and Impulse Tracker (yes, it can filters both ways, I'm that crazy).

This is a filter free zone!